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Hello Fellow brewers, Happy Friday! I will be brewing a clone of Rouge's hazelnut Brown tomorrow. I am going to brew this batch for a friend that loves this style. Then bottle it (UGGGGHHH!) , and I haven't had to bottle for several years. (feel bad for me). LOL I would like to hear if any of...

Hey all. I brewed a Oatmeal chocolate stout last week. I plan on kegging, but want a few bottles to submit to a contest. Is there an easy peazy way to figure out how much dextrose to put in the few bottles to get those to carb? Last time I poured from a keg to a bottle for this very same...

Well....it finally happened. I broke another carboy. The first time this happened to me it was empty. I was sanitizing it before racking my wort to ferment. It slipped out of my hands and hit the garage floor, and BLAMBO! Needless to say, I saved the wort and still had a great beer, but every...

Hello, So I am going away from my normal pale ale and American ale routine and mixing it up for a couple beers. I wanted to try a fruity beer for spring and have done the blue moon clone enough. So I brewed up a batch of light ale and asked the guy at my lhbs about his apricot extract. He...

Hello, fellow home brewers, I brewed a blonde ale last weekend, and pitched a yeast that was harvested from a previous batch. The yeast strain I used was Wyeast 1056. I followed the process of washing it with a boiled and cooled gallon of water, racking the top layer to a 1 gal. carboy...

Hello All, So...I guess I am on batch.....15 or 16?? now. I have been all grain brewing for about a year and a half. (and loving it) I do 5 gal. batches (eventually 10...when funds allow), and I batch sparge. I use a 5 gal. Igloo cooler as a mash tun. I always sparge around 170 to 175, 10 min...

Hey all. Gonna try doing a pumpkin beer this wknd. Last year, I put the pumpkin in the boil. It turned out with great flavor, but never carbed up in the bottle. Think I Wii keg this time and put pumpkin in the mash. I have never used rice hulls before, and have heard several times, this is a...

I started brewing a year ago (all grain). After helping a buddy a cple times, I decided that this really isn't any harder than I make it. I am now in 15 batches, and like most people here, its become a hobby. I have a question..... I use the same equipement on every brew. I use the same mash...

Hey folks, So I am gonna bottle my apple pie ale today. I have a question for ya'll. But first....seems like when ever I have bottled a beer with something other than basic beer ingredients, it has not carbed as I would have liked. I did a an american ale, with apple cider and a cinnamin...

Hey my fellow zymergysts... I am gonna try an apple ale for the 1st time tomorrow. I have a question regaurding apple cider. On the bottles it says u must refrigerate after opening a cider. Im wondering if I should add this at the last 5 min.s of the boil, when i pitch my yeast, to...

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Hey all. So, I have a question. 8 kegged my 1st beer this wknd. Turned out wonderful. When I filled the keg, I ended up with an xtra 22 ounce bottle. Is it possible to dump this in keg with the beer that's already carbed and set back to searving pressure. Or should I just kiss it goodbye?

I brewed a ca common this wknd. The recipe says it is best fermented between 58-63 degrees. The thermostat in my house is @ 70, so I have the primary in the garadge. It is 58 degrees. Here's my delima.... right now its in the high 50s to low 60s outside. The next wk it is suppose to drop into...

I have done 4 beers now. A belgian wit, dunkelweizen, pumpkin ale, and choc/oatmeal stout. Was thinkin about doin an american ale this wknd. I was thinkin about adding maybe some apple and cinn. Has anyone tried this style and/or have any pointers/opinions? Thanx

Hey fellow hop heads. I have a carbination question. 8 have brewed 4 beers now. All ales. A belgian white, dunkelwiezen, pumpkin and a stout. My 1st beer I brewed on a 90 plus dgree day in summer. Fermented for 3 weeks at 72 and it came out awesome! The next 2 I brewed about a month and 2 mo.s...

Gonna do my 1st stout this wknd (4th batch). Wanted to make it a choc. Oatmeal stout. Was gonna add at the end of the boil. Just curious if any1 has any thoughts or advise???

I racked my pumpkin ale yesterday after being in primary for 10 days. I had 6.5 gal.s of wort originaly. Now I have 4 gal.s of beer in carboy. :-( I don't think I will be adding 4 cans of pumpkin to the boil next time. I will just go with spices

I'm gonna do my 3rd batch this wknd. My belgian wit came out aweSOME, btw. Thankyou for all the help. I found a good all grain pupkin ale recipe on here and wanted to brew for the start of fall. The recipe said the pumpkin go's in the boil, as it dosnt have much starch and can cause stuck...

Well I got my belgian wit bottled saterday. I should have never moved it to a secondary. (Way clearer than I wanted.) Flavor of hydrometer samples were good. When I used the online calculator to figure abv it came out at 3.94. And I recently got a cpl bottles of hazelnut brown from a buddy that...

I brewed my 2nd batch yesterday. Woo hoo! So, I did a dunkelweizen. Got about 6.5 gal.s in fermenter. This time I used a blow off tube, instead of multiple airlocks. This morning I found it had blew off about a 1/2 gal. Into the pitcher and it was mostly luquid. My quest. Is.... is it normal for...